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On 14-08-2011 11:12, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This is the second item I would like to discuss for the next Council |
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> agenda ( or a later one ) |
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> Quite a few of you know that Council acts as a court in case a |
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> developer has unresolved disputes with Devrel or when he is not happy |
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> with a Devrel's decision. The problem is that having the same people |
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> in the Council and in Devrel makes no sense since the same people |
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> will vote twice on that matter. A developer who wants to appeal to |
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> Council, seeks a review of his case and a fresh voting from new |
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> people. However, having devrel members, which are already biased |
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> based on the previous decision, makes the "Council's court role" a |
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> moot role :) |
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> |
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> Again, this is just a brainstorming, so please let me know what you |
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> think. |
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Yes, we should have no rules preventing DevRel members from running to |
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and or serve in the Council. Furthermore, to address this type of |
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concerns, in every Council election the table of candidates has a column |
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for DevRel members, current Council members and Trustees[1]. So it's up |
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to the developer community to decide if they want a particular |
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candidate, DevRel member or not, to serve in the Council. |
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Also, the Council serves as an "appeal body"[2], not a "trial court"[3]. |
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To address some of the suggestions on this thread, my opinion is that |
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DevRel is the body with disciplinary oversight over developers and that |
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Council should restrict itself to appeals. In my view, by having direct |
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intervention, the Council would limit itself and prevent any chance of |
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an appeal. |
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In addition, "trial by popularity" is always a bad idea and as others |
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have stated, council members are frequently elected for dealing with |
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technical issues and are not or may not have the required skill set to |
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deal with disciplinary issues. |
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[1] - |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2011/council-201106-nominees.xml |
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[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_court |
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[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_court |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng |
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